Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Trump's Proposal to Ban Muslim Immigration Makes Less Sense than Gun Control | RedState: "We’ve had a lot of fun over the last couple weeks making fun of the idea that a committed terrorist would be dissuaded from their plans to commit mass murder (which is pretty illegal) by something as relatively trivial as gun control regulation. As we noted this morning, Abdehlamid Abaaoud was one of the most wanted men in all of Europe and he was somehow able to get numerous illegal fully automatic weapons, along with explosives, into the hands of the Paris attackers.

Any Republican who is actually defending Trump’s comments on the merits would do well to turn this kind of skepticism about the ability of American laws to deter terrorists on to the question of whether we should or could ban all Muslims from entering the United States."